Happy New Year! I just realized its been a couple months since my last post. Guess that is what happens when life happens. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are enjoying all this winter we've been having the last couple of weeks. I don't know about you but I am beyond eager to have spring show up sooner than later. I would love to be able to feel my fingers and toes again! Unfortunately I know that is wishful thinking and we are stuck with winter for a couple more months....UGH!! So yesterday as I was getting into my car in the garage and tracking all the slush and smudge both into the car and into the house it occurred to me I wish I had asked to have a water spigot put inside our garage. Then from time to time we could just spray out all that smudge from the floor instead of having to shovel and sweep it out and drag the hose half way around the house from the outside spigot into the garage to clean the floor. I know my neighbor had one in his garage and at first I thought it was odd but now I think he was pretty smart. So I just wanted to share this thought with all of you that still have time to make any changes or who are just starting the building process. Its just one of those things you don't think of until afterwards when you wish you had it!
So do any of you have any project plans in the making? This is the time of year when I start making my lists of projects I'd like to accomplish this year and I have got a pretty good list started already. Hopefully that will mean some pretty good posts this year. I'd love to see what you all have been up to and what you are hoping to work on this year....it will help with my inspiration!!
Take Care!!
We didn't get to select the locations for our hose bibs (otherwise I probably would have picked right outside the garage) but the "default" location for our second one is inside the garage.
ReplyDeleteAs for being able to clean it out during the winter, however, we were advised multiple times from our PM that we should turn off the hose connection even though it is located on the wall of the garage directly against the house.
Thanks Brandon. We didn't get to pick the locations of our hose bib's either. I wish we could have. We also turn off our hose connections during the winter. When spring comes about though I always wish I had that hose bib in our garage to clean out that winter gunk. I know my neighbor washed his car a lot in his garage. Perhaps he had some sort of special water supply installed in his garage when they built. Either way seems to me it was pretty handy and I wish I had it. I think I've seen another blogger post they have a washtub in their garage and perhaps thats what my neighbor had as well (although I never saw a washtub in their garage...maybe they removed it and kept the water source...I don't know) so perhaps they had hot and cold water available in their garage and just hooked up some sort of special hose or something......anyways just a thought and something I wish I had thought of before.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes. We do have a laundry tub in our garage... although, we were "advised" to shut the water supply off to even that to. It probably depends where you're located/weather as to whether or not that is actually required. To be safe, we turned off the hose bib but we did leave the sink on.
DeleteAfter living in our house for a year I wish we could do it over again! I have learned so much about what we need after being in the house for a while. Oh well!
ReplyDeletedepending on location, finished vs unfinished basement, etc... you may be able to still install one. During the build, I almost came in and ran water/drain lines from the half bath (shares a wall). Then I realized I can do it down the road easy enough by tapping in the lines in the basement.
ReplyDeleteSo, if you really want one....may still be possible.
As for projects, I have already sketched up and bought wood for a closet organizer....just as soon as I finish staining and installing the living room shelves.
I don't know if this will help you or not but I tried to get one in the garage and was told no.
ReplyDeleteI'm still stunned by the things "Ryan Homes doesn't do" which other people did easy peasy with Ryan Homes. It really comes down to what your sales team knows and what your PM knows. I had to show a few blogs to push through some things which were very important to me.
Sometimes I wish I had pushed HARDER to get the things we wanted. One of the things we were most disappointed about was that if we wanted the maple espresso cabinet finish (which we did) we had to get it in the Scottsdale collection. I REALLY wanted to upgrade to the Wyoming (or anything in the "Portfolio Select") to take advantage of the solid hardwood and dovetail drawers. Our request was repeatedly denied.
DeleteShortly after we broke ground, I visited the model to find that they were offering new cabinet options in both the color and collection that we wanted. We were told we were "beyond our 30-day window" and despite the fact I had showed another blogger who had had this waived at the exact same time for the exact same reason, there was nothing they would do for us.
I love our kitchen... but every once in a while I think about how much nicer it would have been to have actually received the upgrade we paid for.
And that is my rant for the day...
We are just beginning the process with Ryan and we were able to add a laundry tub in the garage with hot and cold water and also still have the hose bib in the garage. The laundry tub was non-standard addition.
ReplyDeleteOh Boy, We're building a Rome and for the first time building we opted not to have a floor drain - I hope we don't regret this decision :(
ReplyDeleteHope you follow our journey here http://buildingromemodelwithryanhomes.blogspot.com/
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